On Lu, 28 iun 10, 19:54:49, lee wrote: > Hi, > > can someone point me to a good documentation about what's needed to > make it so that computers can connect to my computer wirelessly? > > I've got a wireless network card which I'm thinking of putting back > into my computer so that I can use the router as a modem only and have > my computer do the firewalling/routing for the LAN via the wireless > network card.
I've done this on lenny, but that machine is currently down so I'm writing from memory: - install hostapd and configure it. The config file is very well commented, just don't touch anything but the few parameters you need (ssid, psk, ...) - depending on your wireless chipset get a newer kernel from backports and don't forget the firmware if needed - configure your routing. I did it with shorewall, since the machine needed a firewall anyway - you might want to install dnsmasq which is a caching DNS server and DHCP server - if you also have wired clients you will need a second wired card and bridge-utils with some tweaks to /etc/network/interfaces and hostapd.conf If you have specific issues I might be able to help. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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